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Recent Examples of disingenuous
The letter’s tone was both-sides-y and scolding, earning immediate scorn—the pearl clutching about cancelation from some of the biggest names in media struck many as disingenuous.
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Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 17 Nov. 2025
Anyone who wants to pretend otherwise is being disingenuous.
—Todd Feurer, CBS News, 17 Nov. 2025
The situation continued to escalate, and King accused the defense attorney of being disingenuous.
—Darcie Moran, Freep.com, 13 Nov. 2025
Mayci and Mikayla rag on Jordan’s church voice and disingenuous crying.
—Olivia Crandall, Vulture, 13 Nov. 2025
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Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 17 Nov. 2025
Anyone who wants to pretend otherwise is being disingenuous.
—Todd Feurer, CBS News, 17 Nov. 2025
The situation continued to escalate, and King accused the defense attorney of being disingenuous.
—Darcie Moran, Freep.com, 13 Nov. 2025
Mayci and Mikayla rag on Jordan’s church voice and disingenuous crying.
—Olivia Crandall, Vulture, 13 Nov. 2025
See All Example Sentences for disingenuous
Recent Examples of Synonyms for disingenuous
Adjective
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Like the other characters in the book, Harper is a stock figure, the brainiac child, but her fearlessness in the face of a crumbling, dishonest world reinvigorates the type.—
Hannah Gold,
New Yorker,
21 Jan. 2026
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The American public gained a negative impression of McCarthy–many seeing him as bullying, reckless, and dishonest.—
Chris John Amorosino,
Hartford Courant,
16 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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The book goes into the deceitful methods used to secure the interview, which was broadcast on 20 November 1995, and the interest in figuring out what happened that exists to this day.—
Lizzie Lanuza,
StyleCaster,
30 Nov. 2025
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Others agreed that her actions were thoughtful, not deceitful.—
Ashley Vega,
PEOPLE,
12 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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Trump, of course, was rude, untruthful, and excessively, if not quite so egregiously, long-winded in his first term, too.—
Susan B. Glasser,
New Yorker,
22 Jan. 2026
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The search led her to a nearby house — and into a complicated situation involving several untruthful children and their parents.—
Tereza Shkurtaj,
PEOPLE,
15 Dec. 2025
Adjective
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The Department of Justice’s probes into contrived investigations, our taxpayer money going into a $400 million ballroom, etc.—
DP Opinion,
Denver Post,
21 Jan. 2026
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The author is particularly impatient with the popular dissemination of the often limited findings of neuroscience, and with the way that vulnerable new mothers are bullied by headlines that seem contrived to prompt a sense of inadequacy in those who are most likely already overwhelmed.—
Rebecca Mead,
New Yorker,
19 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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His fall played as tabloid morality tale, at once confirming secular suspicion about hypocritical Christians and Christian suspicions about the temptations of secular trappings.—
Sam Kestenbaum,
Vulture,
2 Jan. 2026
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And now, with several countries withdrawing from global governance, Jin thinks those lecturing China on being responsible are being hypocritical.—
Nicholas Gordon,
Fortune,
14 Dec. 2025
Adjective
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While there are certainly products that can be used across different hair textures, lengths, curl patterns, thicknesses, colors (natural and unnatural), and needs, hair products are often created with specific consumers in mind.—
Jailynn Taylor,
Allure,
31 Dec. 2025
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The handsome pair of actors play sniper specialists from enemy countries who must each take a long shift on opposite sides of a massive trench where some unnatural monsters apparently lurk below.—
Jeff Spry,
Space.com,
27 Dec. 2025
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Another season of The Traitors is here — which means a new group of devious celebrities has been chosen to wreak havoc in the castle.—
Jordana Comiter,
PEOPLE,
9 Jan. 2026
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Liongate just greenlit a sequel film based on the second book in Freida McFadden’s trilogy series, The Housemaid’s Secret, with Sydney Sweeney returning as the devious maid, Millie Calloway.—
Alejandra Gularte,
Vulture,
7 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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But the revenues never reached the assumed level and his Department of Finance eventually — and very quietly — acknowledged that the administration had overstated income by a whopping $165 billion over four years.—
Dan Walters,
Mercury News,
13 Jan. 2026
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But the revenues never reached the assumed level and his Department of Finance eventually — and very quietly — acknowledged that the administration had overstated income by a whopping $165 billion over four years.—
Dan Walters,
Oc Register,
12 Jan. 2026
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“Disingenuous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disingenuous. Accessed 24 Jan. 2026.
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